(Jerusalem Post) Tamar Ben-Ozer - James Jeffrey, a former senior American diplomat, told Israel's Army Radio on Wednesday: "The Israeli authorities had been working with the U.S. government for months before the site was struck....Very early it was clear to us that this was a North Korean-enabled plutonium enrichment reactor that was clearly designed to advance a nuclear weapons program." Jeffrey believes the strike had a deterring effect on other countries' nuclear plans: "Everybody in the region saw that if you are trying to get an illicit nuclear weapons program and you come very close - we're talking about weeks, if not sooner, in the Syria case - it is quite possible that you will be facing military actions. I think this had a significant effect on Iran's calculations, and possibly other countries' calculations....It was a blessing for the Middle East and for humanity that the reactor was destroyed."
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